Reaping the Full Benefits of LC/NC & Citizen Development
Ronan Hughes
Ronan Hughes says low-code/no-code can be viewed as a low-risk/no-regrets approach to organizational transformation. He describes how citizen development (CD) can improve IT delivery and speed strategic development and operations and then goes into detail about the opportunities CD offers to the business, IT, and combined business/IT applications.
Reaping the Full Benefits of LC/NC & Citizen Development
Ronan Hughes
Ronan Hughes says low-code/no-code can be viewed as a low-risk/no-regrets approach to organizational transformation. He describes how citizen development (CD) can improve IT delivery and speed strategic development and operations and then goes into detail about the opportunities CD offers to the business, IT, and combined business/IT applications.
The Importance of Citizen Development for Digital Transformation
Noel Carroll, Liam Ó Móráin, Dave Garrett, Arjun Jamnadass
Noel Carroll et al. outline several digital transformation challenges, illustrate how citizen development addresses them, and offer seven recommendations for those planning such an initiative.
The Importance of Citizen Development for Digital Transformation
Noel Carroll, Liam Ó Móráin, Dave Garrett, Arjun Jamnadass
Noel Carroll et al. outline several digital transformation challenges, illustrate how citizen development addresses them, and offer seven recommendations for those planning such an initiative.
IPA in the Enterprise, Part IV: Hoped-for Benefits
Curt Hall
Here in Part IV of this Executive Update series, we examine findings pertaining to the benefits organizations seek to obtain from implementing IPA technologies and practices.
Learning to Lead Collective Creativity, Part IV: Leading Distributed Groups
Shannon Hessel
Explore the leadership lessons learned by observing four gathered but distant string quartets performing a new 35-minute piece of music collaboratively in various performance settings.
Ingredients for Enterprise Agility, Part IV: Maintaining the Transformational Momentum
Jon Ward
As the fourth installment in the series “Ingredients for Enterprise Agility,” this Advisor explores how a transformation team can create and maintain momentum by mobilizing volunteers, walking the board, applying the pickup sticks model, and creating an evidence board.
Understanding & Overcoming Failing Enterprise Portfolio Management
Brian Seitz
In this Executive Update, we consider the elements of failure and examine portfolio management as both an extension of strategy and an ongoing journey. Finally, we illustrate a roadmap and framework to get you on the right path.
Setting the Foundations for Cloud Usage
Frank Contrepois
This Advisor offers a brief introduction into how to create a cloud center of excellence and provides procurement-friendly discussion points for reaping the benefits of cloud computing.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption — Vendors, Products, and Services
Curt Hall
Although still in development, products and services utilizing FHE are available. Organizations should consider investigating the technology now in order to prepare for when it starts to enter the mainstream. This Advisor examines some companies, products, and services utilizing FHE that can help you in your investigation.
Strengthening Workplace Inclusion Practices, Empowering Employees During a Pandemic, more!
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge explores strategies for strengthening inclusion in the workplace, identifies how leaders can help HR management improve employee well-being, and more!
Meeting the Challenges of a Very VUCA World
Salvatore Moccia, Shuming Zhao, Patrick Flanagan
For years, businesses have been operating in a world that has become riskier and increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). With the emergence of COVID-19, the past year has catapulted that risk, upending social, political, and economic structures in ways previously unimagined. In this Advisor, we take a closer look at some of the challenges that employees and leaders face in this increasingly VUCA world.
Micro-Fulfillment Is Tech’s Next Innovation “Big Bet” for Malls, Retailers, and Restaurants
Noah Barsky
Innovation doesn’t always mean grand invention. Sometimes reimagining the supply chain can yield big results and redefine a company’s future.
Even before the pandemic, online retail and rapid food delivery struggled to service “the last mile” to the doorstep. Surging demand from “stay/work/live-at-home” consumers compounded the problem and stressed even the most reliable delivery services.
Toward Accelerated Value Delivery: 3 Pillars
Jayashree Arunkumar
To successfully accelerate transformation, digital leaders must be tightly aligned in three pillars: 1) team (for continuous collaboration), 2) talent (for continuous learning), and 3) technology (for continuous delivery). This Advisor provides insight into these three pillars and explores how to use each to support organizational transformation.
Exploring the Intersections of Digital, DevOps & Agile — An Introduction
Eric Willeke
This Advisor explores the strategies leaders should embrace to enable transformational change. These include integrating elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and other modern practices, embracing a holistic mindset and culture, measuring impact, and reimagining new approaches to formerly tried-and-true practices.
Data Strategy's 4 Dimensions
Richard Veryard
Data architect Richard Veryard explains the four dimensions of data and why they are critical to achieving information superiority — the idea that the ability to collect, process, and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information can give you operational and strategic advantage.
Tackling Today’s Security Concerns with RASP
Timothy Chiu
Digital transformation brings an accelerated move of data and applications to the cloud, which translates to a larger attack surface for cybercriminals. This Advisor explores how to use runtime application self-protection (RASP) to improve and advance application security for organizations.
New Rules Analytics Adoption Challenges
Vince Kellen
This Advisor explores the seven new rules of data analytics, the associated IT architectural adoption challenges which encompass technological, IT staff, and organizational issues. and strategies for addressing them.
Exploring the Full Implications of Digital Transformation
Matt Ganis
What does “digital” really mean to a company? What makes Agile different from what came before? What are the implications of DevOps and the speed it provides? This article highlights the degree of change required for various heavily impacted functions within the company and the impact of new behaviors that go against decades of habit.
Exploring the Full Implications of Digital Transformation
Matt Ganis
What does “digital” really mean to a company? What makes Agile different from what came before? What are the implications of DevOps and the speed it provides? This article highlights the degree of change required for various heavily impacted functions within the company and the impact of new behaviors that go against decades of habit.
Escape the Agile Bubble & Bring Back Productivity
Jacek Chmiel
Agile has picked up a number of misconceptions, offshoots, and antipatterns as the world has figured out how to make it effective in different environments. Jacek Chmiel examines potential biases and the impacts they have on how Agile and DevOps show up in our organizations, helping us reflect on how we might reimagine various aspects and break out of our old ways of thinking.
Escape the Agile Bubble & Bring Back Productivity
Jacek Chmiel
Agile has picked up a number of misconceptions, offshoots, and antipatterns as the world has figured out how to make it effective in different environments. Jacek Chmiel examines potential biases and the impacts they have on how Agile and DevOps show up in our organizations, helping us reflect on how we might reimagine various aspects and break out of our old ways of thinking.
Master Classes in Risk Mismanagement, Part I — The Texas Cold Snap
Robert Charette
How many times must a predictable, recurring risk transform into a crisis before those in charge decide that perhaps steps should be taken to mitigate the risk? In the case of Texas power-generating utilities and US states’ pandemic vaccinations preparations, it appears that the answer is at least three times and counting.
Using Digital Twins to Enhance Organizational Agility
Jacqueline Corbett, Adnène Hajji, Sehl Mellouli
Digital twins have a range of capabilities that contribute to organizational agility. This Advisor explores how these capabilities link to agility dimensions, including data management capabilities, simulation, modeling, optimization, learning, and traceability.
How to Demonstrate EA Value
Brian Cameron
This on-demand webinar introduces several approaches to measuring EA value and recommends a process for deriving EA value metrics that aligns with your organization’s value drivers.